US President Obama calls Trump ‘woefully unprepared’ for the presidency

President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as “woefully unprepared” for the presidency, telling reporters at a bilateral news conference Tuesday that the Republican presidential nominee continues to demonstrate that he’s unfit for the Oval Office.

“I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president,” Obama said, speaking alongside Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. “I said so last week, and he keeps on proving it. The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that had made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn’t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia means that he’s woefully unprepared to do this job.”

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FierEuropeen

It would be very enlightening to the American electorate to put Trump in a Quiz show about the world history, politics, economics and cultures. We would see how frightening and ignominiously ignorant Trump is about everything. It would be the end of his career. I know for a fact that Trump favorite reading is to every morning read all the magazines with news about himself.

Posted on 8/2/16 | 7:34 PM CET

Art

So Trump is woefully unprepared, Obama is woefully inadequate and Clinton is woefully untrustworthy

What was the saying again ‘each country gets the government it deserves’ …

Posted on 8/2/16 | 8:04 PM CET

Veritas-Semper

Look who’s judging. He “who would walk on water”, he who never ran anything prior to assuming the presidency, he who never ran any organization of any size, tells us that someone who ran billion a dollar business is unprepared to run a huge bureaucracy.

Granted, Trump didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize prior to achieving any of his successes. But, is that an automatic disqualifier for the job at hand?

Posted on 8/2/16 | 9:36 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

Obama is absolutely right! Trump is a despicable man with no values. He has always been a mobster of the worst kind, of all those who have governed the USA. He and his whole family are mobsters. The USA is sick!

Unfortunately, the little brothers in England seem infatuated with this mob: Farage and the clown Johnson, among those in the news. This really shows the mentalility of the British neo-cons.

Posted on 8/3/16 | 12:28 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

At last, Obama has come out with a public statement which should have long been made. Trump is a mosbster (his mafia connections well documented by the New York Times), and totally unfit to lead the USA, not only due to his mafia connections, but also because he is unreliable in his undiplomatic outbursts which continue day-by-day.

If the US folk are so stupid as to elect such a dangerous man, they are in for it.

To the UK, I can only keep saying: keep your neo-con clowns Farage and Johnson for yourselves. They´ve enough enough damage to the UK.

Posted on 8/3/16 | 9:27 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

@FierEuropeen
You´re right! Trump is an economic and cultural analphabet, along with his family. Putting him to a test, however, will not work in the neo-con USA mentality. This milieu in the USA is all about flag-waving and circus-like events. Serious politics is NOT what the US people want.

Hopeless!

Posted on 8/3/16 | 9:36 PM CET

Maria Valentina Umer

The USA is sick to the core! Mobsters, racial shootings and amock ones by young men in high schools. And now this Trump! I wish not only that Hillary Clinton wins the elections, but also that she puts an end to this lunatic arms-for-all mentality.
I don´t think she will succeed, however. The gun lobby in the US is too strong and dates back to the Wild West. The USA is still in this mode!

Posted on 8/3/16 | 9:56 PM CET

FierEuropeen

@ Maria Valentina Umer
Completely agree. The US society has turned itself in a facebook and frivolous society.